Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:54:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: lockup on Athlon systems, kernel race condition? |
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Terence Ripperda wrote: > > .. > > Possibly the IPI has got lost - seems that this is a popular failure mode > > for flakey chipsets/motherboards. > > this sounds like the most likely candidate. I'm working on tracking down > documentation for further study. Is there an easy way to determine this > as the cause?
Some systems will drop nasty messages in the logs when APIC checksum errors are detected. And such systems will also be prone to lockups due to failed delivery. But whether IPIs can be lost without any such warning signs: don't know, sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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